JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri tax revenues grew about 3.1 percent since last fiscal year, which is not enough to fund this year’s budget.

State Budget Director Dan Haug on Wednesday announced net general revenues increased from $7.4 billion last year to $7.6 billion this year.

Growth has been down since February. Revenues needed to grow 7 percent to fund this fiscal year’s budget.

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens and his predecessor, Jay Nixon, have made a combined $350 million of spending cuts to offset lower-than-expected revenues.

Haug also says the state has repaid $500 million borrowed from a state reserve fund before the May 15 deadline.

O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — An overdose victim has attempted to shoot the first responders who had just saved his life in a St. Louis suburb.

O’Fallon Fire Chief Tom Vineyard tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that two firefighters and a St. Charles County Ambulance District paramedic were sent Monday to a man’s home, where he was found unresponsive.

Vineyard says the man allegedly reached for a gun after the Narcan given by the responders reversed the effects of the opiates, causing him to regain consciousness. One shot was allegedly fired into the wall of the home.

Vineyard sent the firefighters home for the rest of the day after the incident.

The fire chief called the incident “pretty unnerving.”

It’s unclear whether the man will be charged.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Greene County Prosecutor Dan Patterson says he will not file charges against a Springfield police officer who fatally shot a man.

Patterson says Officer Daniel Carlson was acting in self-defense when he shot 44-year-old James Lewis early on January 1.

Police have said Lewis fired a gun and pointed the weapon at officers before he was shot.

Lewis’ family members told the Springfield News-Leader he was a paranoid schizophrenic, and they wondered if he was having an episode during the encounter with Carlson.

Police had said Lewis called 911 that day and said he had a gun and was planning to kill his wife, although he wasn’t married. He was riding a bike and eventually ran off before he was confronted by several officers.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have drafted a new and larger plan for raising income taxes to fix the state budget after top Republicans abruptly dropped one negotiated earlier.

House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday evening on a plan to raise more than $1 billion over two years by rolling back past income tax cuts championed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.

The same negotiators drafted a proposal Monday worth $879 million over two years. But Senate GOP leaders abandoned plans for an expedited vote when support for it collapsed.

Democrats and moderate Republicans said Monday’s plan didn’t raise enough new revenue to cover budget shortfalls and provide additional funds for public schools.

Kansas faces budget shortfalls totaling $887 million through June 2019 and the Kansas Supreme Court has said education funding is inadequate.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Supporters of right to work in Missouri are coming together to raise money to fend off attacks on the new law.

Liberty Alliance attorney Edward Greim said the political action committee’s goal is to support the law banning mandatory union fees, which is set to take effect in August.

Union opponents are trying to derail the law by putting it to voters and attempting to undo it by changing the Missouri Constitution. Greim said Liberty Alliance opposes both of those efforts.

Greim works with Missouri Republican Party Chairman Todd Graves at Kansas City’s Graves Garrett law firm.

The campaign committee Missourians for Worker Freedom is fighting ballot initiatives against right to work. Its treasurer is James C. Thomas, who had been the treasurer for Republican gubernatorial candidate Catherine Hanaway.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The archdiocese covering the Kansas City, Kansas, region and much of the eastern part of the state is severing ties with Girl Scouts and urging an end to cookie sales, citing philosophical concerns with the organization.

The Kansas City Star reports the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas announced Monday that Girl Scouts is “no longer a compatible partner in helping us form young women with the virtues and values of the Gospel.”

The archdiocese says it is switching its support to a 22-year-old, Christian-based scouting program, American Heritage Girls.

American Heritage Girls has become an option for those who claim Girl Scouts has turned too liberal and has relationships with organizations that don’t share traditional family values. The Girl Scouts deny that.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A western Missouri man has been ordered to spend eight years and one month in federal prison for amassing what prosecutors say was a large collection of child pornography.

Thirty-six-year-old Timothy Jokubeit of Warrensburg was sentenced Monday in Kansas City. He pleaded guilty in May of last year to charges of receiving child pornography over the internet and of possessing child pornography.

Prosecutors say that during a search of Jokubeit’s computer equipment seized in 2015, investigators found more than 2,200 still images and 300 videos depicting child pornography.

Authorities say Jokubeit told investigators he had been downloading child pornography for more than two decades.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An animal-welfare group is asking for the public’s help in identifying the person it said chained a dog to a cinder block and left him to drown at a Kansas City-area reservoir before he was rescued.

Officials with the Society to Prevent Cruelty to Animals’ Great Plains chapter say the dog the group has named “Deputy” was found Friday morning caked with mud at Missouri’s Longview Lake.

The group says the dog is a shepherd-lab mix that’s believed to be 5 to 7 years old.

He is being cared for at Great Plains SPCA’s Independence location.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have drafted a new plan to fix the state budget by increasing personal income taxes that is similar to one Republican Gov. Sam Brownback vetoed.

Negotiators for the state House and Senate agreed on the details Monday evening. They believe their plan would raise $879 million over two years.

The plan emerged from talks among top Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature. It would boost income tax rates and return Kansas to having three income tax rates instead of the present two.

The top rate would be 5.45 percent for the wealthiest taxpayers.

Brownback vetoed a similar bill in February.

Kansas now has two tax brackets with a top rate of 4.6 percent. Brownback successfully pushed for massive income tax cuts in 2012 and 2013 but budget problems followed.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s attorney general has concluded that Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds will not have the authority to appoint a lieutenant governor when she replaces Gov. Terry Branstad.

Reynolds is preparing to become governor when Branstad resigns to become U.S. ambassador to China in coming weeks.

Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller said in a legal opinion Monday that Reynolds will assume the duties of an elected governor through January 2019 but won’t have the power to appoint a new lieutenant.

Miller’s office had said in December that it agreed with Reynolds and Branstad that she would have the power to choose a new no. 2.

The reversal is likely to infuriate Republicans and could have significant consequences for the 2018 election in which Reynolds is expected to seek a four-year term.